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Everyone with your exact job title in your industry vanishes, how long until awful things happen? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by ericbomb@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I'm a support engineer for dental software. So difficult issues won't get immediate resolutions, and instead development will actually have to fix things because offices will be crying at them for a fix instead of at me.

But the world won't end.

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[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Software Engineer. Things might improve, actually.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

There are applications where we actually have to adhere to standards.

[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah, my post was mostly tongue-in-cheek. (I used to be the official-ish PCI guy where I worked, so I know about the standards to which you refer.) But at the same time, if software engineers didn't exist, we soon wouldn't have NFTs or DRM on cars, coffee makers, and garage doors or secret TV signals for spying on you via your smartphone etc.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

You don't know what standard I'm talking about.

You also have no idea how much of your daily life relies on software.

[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

You're not taking what I've been saying the way I meant it.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Maybe actually say what you mean.

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